Geneva Panel Parity Pledge

Geneva Panel Parity Pledge

Why: Fifty per cent of the population warrants the same visibility as theother fifty percent. Visibility is key for role models in the public spaceand workplace.Objective: Women’s distinct and expert voices elevated through gender parity onpanels.Outcome: Unique points of view offer 21st century results and sustainablesolutions.Impact: A change in culture, and a mind shift.

The Geneva Gender Parity Panel Pledge is both a concrete process and a thoughtfulinternal and external exercise for the conference organizer and potential panelist.The process should ensure that there is a conversation each time a panel iscomposed, and that the process of including high performing dynamic femaleexperts will eventually become reflexive, rendering the “Geneva Gender ParityPanel Pledge” obsolete.

The Process:Every time you organize or participate in a panel, ask yourself1. What are you doing to ensure gender balance at your event?2. Are there any women, or equal numbers of women, speaking on the panel/s?3. (If not), have the organizers reached out to female experts?4. (If not), can we share our evolving list of dynamic experts in the field thathappen to be women? (This list is composed by the potential panelist/ororganization. It also has the knock on effect of the potential male panelistchampioning a number of brilliant and knowledgeable female colleagues.)5. Are conference organizers exploring the list and issuing invitations to expert women?